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bulldoggishly

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Etymology

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From bulldoggish +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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bulldoggishly (comparative more bulldoggishly, superlative most bulldoggishly)

  1. In a bulldoggish manner.
    • 1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, →ISBN, page 36:
      He enters the shop with his dog, a tough, stumpy, well-fed mutt. The dog is white with a black patch over one eye, looking rather like the dog in the R.C.A. Victor ads, except that he is shorter and even more bulldoggishly muscular.